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Richard A. Marvez ***Repeat comment with contact added*** Hello...I've been searching this amazing site for a unique item. Hopefully someone has photos of Funland Park formally @ NW 27th ave & 79th street. Though defunct in the early 60s an enterprising carnival owner by the name of Barney Corey brought the park back to life in 1969/1970. Barney & his wife Marie placed their last few remaining amusement rides at the park, of which one was the massive 1913 Philadelphia Toboggan Company carousel. After failing @ Funland park, Barney & Marie purchased property on Flagler street & NW 19th ave. The Flagler street property had been a small amusement park through the middle 60s but had been closed for a couple of years. The PTC carousel was removed from Funland and prominently placed out on the corner of the Flagler street location. Does anyone have photos of either park and more specifically the PTC carousel? We are creating a magazine article which will detail the history of this grand carousel and on up to its unfortunate demise in 1975. Email: driveshaftpower1@bellsouth.net

Richard Levy

10-Dec-2014 21:52

Does anyone have a picture of JUNIOR'S BOAT AND FISHING DOCK NEAR FIFTH AND ALTON?

Guest

17-Oct-2014 21:59

Can someone tell me what hospital in Dade county burned down in the late 60's. Back tracking on place of birth 8-13-1954 when family lived there. please e-mail me at: e.wassenberg@comcast.net Ellen

Richard A. Marvez

13-Oct-2014 10:58

Hello...I've been searching this amazing site for a unique item. Hopefully someone has photos of Funland Park formally @ NW 27th ave & 79th street. Though defunct in the early 60s an enterprising carnival owner by the name of Barney Corey brought the park back to life in 1969/1970. Barney & his wife Marie placed their last few remaining amusement rides at the park, of which one was the massive 1913 Philadelphia Toboggan Company carousel. After failing @ Funland park, Barney & Marie purchased property on Flagler street & NW 19th ave. The Flagler street property had been a small amusement park through the middle 60s but had been closed for a couple of years. The PTC carousel was removed from Funland and prominently placed out on the corner of the Flagler street location. Does anyone have photos of either park and more specifically the PTC carousel? We are creating a magazine article which will detail the history of this grand carousel and on up to its unfortunate demise in 1975. Richard a. Marvez

Guest of 25-MAR-14, RC, Shelley and David K, thank you for posting your comments and memories, I do appreciate it. David K, it sounds like great cheap times to me regarding the movies, all the food and fun that you and your sisters enjoyed. And congrats on winning over your lady with donuts and for your 48-year marriage to her. Rock on!

Don .

David K

13-Jun-2014 04:02

The Center Movie Theatre in Edison Center was the hub of my universe growing up in Miami's NW area. My mom would give my two sisters and me 75 cents each and with that we were treated to two full movies, one serial, ten cartoons, a soda. popcorn and a candy of our choice. We also usually had a yo-yo contest on stage to boot. Had enough money left over to buy a birch beer and a burger at the Royal Castle or a couple of fresh donuts at Shell City on the way home. Would share this with my "girlfriend" at the time, who later became my wife for 48 years and counting. What great memories!

Shelley

16-May-2014 15:12

What great memories ....my father owed the Corsair Hotel at 101 Ocean Drive. The first hotel on the Ocean next to fishing Pier.

RC

12-May-2014 12:47

Alan...about the restaurant on 79th street causeway...It had to be one of the following......Dean Martins, Beni Hana or Pepermint Lounge (home of Wayne Cochran)

Guest

25-Mar-2014 04:24

relocated to Miami in 1968 from Pittsburgh....lived in a small apartment near the airport..worked for eastern airlines in the accounting dept....wonderful memories ..Eastern employee dances.....good friends, Ed and Judy....Miami Beach on the weekends,suntanning by day, bar hopping and shows in the evening........playing Bunco with friends and Lums for hot dogs!!!

I used to fish for spiny lobsters with my dad in biscayne bay and would watch that sign w/ the suntan lotion for hours.

Guest

14-Jun-2013 02:00

Oh...I love this site!

Guest

04-Jun-2013 22:07

want to get a poster of the small girl at the beach being chased by a dog biting her bathing suit suntan lotion ad.

Duane Renfrow

03-Apr-2013 21:46

I was in Love with a Girl from Hialeah, named Mary Sweet..I called her Sweet Mary she hated that..I've lost touch with her..I always wanted to apoligise for not being the nicest person she ever met..I worked for Royal Castle in 1967-National Airlines in 1968-Red Top baggage delivery service at Miami International Airport in 1969..I loved Miami & Mary Sweet..

David

13-Feb-2013 13:59

Can anyone confirm that there was a Royal Castle on the SW corner of NW 17 Ave & NW 36 St? (I would be glad to purchase a picture of this corner.) Thanks. David

Nancy

06-Feb-2013 04:02

Does anyone remember the Malaluca hotel on collins avenue? . I was a kid in the mid 1960's and stayed there several times. We used to walk into town to the grocery store and down the beach to a coffee shop w awesome pecan rolls....there was also a large house down the beach with concrete walls around it and when we peeked over them we could see painted murals along the walls of the house.... I m sure all of this seems much more grandiose than it was since I was 7-10 years old but would love to know just where it was.....:?

Mario Aguero

09-Dec-2012 02:28

Your collection of pictures is amazing. I live on 9th street and 1st avenue, northwest, in a highrise. Miami has completely changed, especialy this neighborhood which borders on Overtown. It seemed much more cohesive and ordered then than it does now. From my balcony I can see block after block of parking lots and empty lots. I now realize these were fuly developed,thriving downtown neighborhoods before the urban blight that destroyed them took over. Thank you for posting.

Bob Kilroy

25-Jun-2012 18:10

Sinced my earlier blogs in 2010 the South Miami Beach 23 acres that I bought from Realtor Moe Katz in 1956...have vanashed. Some one just stole those 15 parcels of one to three acres and built Condos on the land. The Big story should hit the media in 2013. Subscribers who were interested should know the acres are in South Miami Beach not South Dade County as Moe Katz thought when he sold them 56 years ago.

Robert

26-Sep-2011 20:15

My name is Robert Karoly. I am now 86 years old and in the 50's.60's and 70's I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and every year Moe Katz would call me up and sell me Miami Beach acreage. Please contact me.

Guest

22-May-2011 22:49

Don I should have read your great site before posting the heavier site below mthis one. I remember all of the great resteraunts and bars another reader posted. AND Sloppy Joes, the , Racquet club on the beach that put out the greatest roast beef spread every Friday night FREE for years. The membership as I recall was $25 or $50. per year. There were other great stops on the drive from Lauderdal3

I remember that the Racqued had another FREE Prime Rib smorhisborg on Saturday nights so our week ends were routine.

Many bars had $.25 bar drinks and servad great odoruves. What a $5. night including a decent tip for the times.

The trip to Miami was always worth it . I just have to say it!

THOSE WERE REALLY THE GOOD OLD DAYS !

Thanks for the memories.

Bob Kilroy, adexagency@comcast.ner

Don maybe you should start an email social club using this site? Call it Memory Lane

Guest

22-May-2011 22:16

Hello Don:

In 1956 after settling in Ft. Lauderdale, in 1952 a fdellow named Moe Katz, a realtor also from NYC called to sell me some acreage in south Miami. I asked how deep the water was and he replyed, straight faced, "Not much over a foot".

I bought the acreage that he periodically offered because it was the price I would pay to watch a cocoroach run across a table. Cheap. So cheap that my many businesses over the years blocked out my legal pad the I kept these transactions on.

As the years flew by I think it was in 2008 that someone at a party told a story about the great deal he made on the west coaast of Florida on an acre of ;land the he forgot about for many years.

My my question for you Don is, how far down on Colins Ave would you have to go to be a foot deep in water, in 1956?

Even an estimate would help.

Bob Kilroy, adexagency@comcast.net
I may not remember this page so you have an email addy.

PS My first trip to Miami Beach was with my Father in 1936. I was just a kid but I remember tghat tghere were slot machines in the telephone booths. with the phones. RK

Sherrie, trust me, you're not the only one! These old photos help me out a lot too, bringing back memories of people and places I've long forgotten.

Don

Sherrie

21-Oct-2010 01:05

thank you I grew up in NMB you help me remember who I am

Guest

08-Apr-2010 14:52

I grew up in Hialeah,and during the summer we would rent a room at the White House hotel,They had a small cafe type that served the best sundae you could put your lips on.
would go and get 1 every day.

Fern, welcome to the site and thank you for your memories. Alan posted the question about the restaurant and I responded with Mike Gordon's because it was located on the bay just north of the 79th Street Causeway on NE Bayshore Court, exactly where he said it was. I remember the name of the Port of Call but can't remember where it was.

Don

Guest

16-Sep-2009 19:54

Hi, everyone. I grew up in Miami 1945-1981. I love this website! Don, is the restaurant you're trying to remember "Port of Call"? I remember that it practically sat on the water and had a nautical theme throughout. The wait staff brought you tiny lime sherbet cones to "cleanse your palette" between courses. I was quite impressed as a teenager going there on a date. I grew up in a rural area called Uleta, and we children would walk down to Velda Farms dairy and buy shaved ice so that we could sell snow cones in the summer. Wonderful times. Fern (Manire) Porras fern.porras@gmail.com

Laura

11-Aug-2009 12:42

Does anyone remember the Robert Clay Hotel and Cabanas at 129 SE 4 Street ? I remeber the white cabanas surrounding the salt water pool with a high diving board and a low one......I was aboyt 8 or 9 years old and still have fond memories of going there every weekend

Pumpernicks is gone, as are Wolfies, Corky's, Juniors, Chippys, and even Rascal House finally bit the dust last year in favor of a branch of Epicure. The closest I have found is TooJays, great Rueben sandwiches. I grew up in NMB, S Miami, Gables and what is now (not then) Pinecrest, (Palmetto 76) from 60 - 76 and weekends on the Beach with grandparents and used to frequent the best restaurants, the above, Red Diamod Inn, Formosa, Santacroce, Sorrento, Piccolo, Roney Pub, Fun Fair, Coney Island, Sam & Carls, later Marshall Majors. My Dad had a restaurant at 72nd and the highway, Lobster Trap (had been a Bonanza, then Valenti's bought it before they moved to S Miami) Great website, even though I am kinda a newcomer compared to some. Went to Carver (1st year of busing but that's a whole other chapter) Ponce, then Palmetto.

Drew

25-May-2009 12:48

I don't suppose Pumpernick's Deli and Restaurant is still around, is it?

Alan, that sounds like Mike Gordon's Seafood Restaurant to me. We loved going there and we miss it. Unfortunately it was demolished years ago. They'll eventually build yet another condo there but development has stalled due to the current huge glut of condos in the Miami area.

Don

alan shaw

27-Apr-2009 04:08

can anyone tell me the name of the restaurant that was located at 79th street causeway and ne bayshore ct.? the entrance was located on bayshore ct. it was a large, one-story structure that had a deck across the back that faced biscayne bay. it was a miami favorite during the 1960's......... anybody?

Barbara

01-Feb-2009 17:26

Anyone remember "Jacks Drive In" on 54th Street??? Famous for the footlong hot dog and home-made chili??? Had the "curb" girls? That was my dad...BJo

I use to spend all summer on Abbott Ave at the Abbott Ter Motel every year for about 10 years as a kid. Thanks for these memories. My mom recently passed away & these reminded me of her. She would have loved this site.. thank you

Guest

28-Oct-2008 14:22

Thanks for posting these shots. My family used to stay at the Bikini Motel for at least 1 or 2 months each year during the winter and growing up Miami was my second home town. It really brings back memories.

Guest

18-Jul-2008 15:38

oops that is the 60's and 70's

Guest

18-Jul-2008 15:34

I thought it was great growing up in Miami in the 60's and 60's. The Hi-Slide on US 1; WOW I haven't thought of that in ages. I do remember the burlap bags we slid on.